Fall 2014

"Conversations with Oedipus," a 3-day symposium on the contemporary value of ancient drama, featuring talks by Dr. David Jacobson (Loyola), Dr. Al Duncan (University of Utah, Salt Lake City), and an "original practices" production of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, performed by the 2014 Randolph College Greek Play and directed by Amy R. Cohen (Randolph College). Read about this event here or listen to Dr. Jacobson describe it on this podcast.

Fall 2013

Friday, November 8, 11 a.m. (place: Cohn Hall 133) Dr. David Jacobson's Latin 104 class celebrates the anniversary of Cicero's first speech against Catiline with a performance in Latin and English. It remains a mystery why Iron Man was there.

Spring 2013

Friday, April 5, 4:45 p.m. (place: Sellinger Hall 203): Sidney Christman, senior Classics major and History minor, Loyola University Maryland, presents her research on "The Forms and Functions of Smiling in Homer's Iliad"

News and Events

Upcoming Events and Departmental News

Five Classics/Classical Civ. students win summer grants! Joshua Ziesel ('17) will spend his summer studying the language of the Athenian orator Lysias, Kjerstin Burdiek ('17) will research the persona of Alexander the Great, and Calix O'Hara ('17) will test the abilities of linothorax armor. Calix will also be giving a talk titled "Developing a Model for the Testing of Ancient Body Armor" at the National Undergraduate Research Colloquium in Eastern Washington University (Spokane, WA) in April. Katie Wright (’17) will be going on the College Year in Athens' summer program, and Michele Ryan (’17), a double-major in Classical Civilization and Biology (with a chemistry minor), will help with forensic anthropological analysis and field/lab illustration of human skeletal remains from the late Iron age burial ground in Eleutherna, Crete.

Natalie Tsottles' ('16) work on translating Latin profiled by Loyola News. Read the full story here.